The Future President, Donald Trump

Don't you also think that the reason blacks have those difficulties are directly related to the handicaps they experience in the white world?
As an Asian American, I believe that to be some of the problem.

As an Asian American, I believe that to be some of the problem.

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As an Asian American, I believe that to be some of the problem.

Strange as Asian Americans had a record of doing fine and way better then blacks even those they was treated badly for generations.

When banks was shut to them they created lending clubs and when they was not allow to own property they enter into 99 years leases and so on.

asian americans went through less then 5 years of discrimination

BillRM wrote:

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As an Asian American, I believe that to be some of the problem.

Strange as Asian Americans had a record of doing fine and way better then blacks even those they was treated badly for generations.

When banks was shut to them they created lending clubs and when they was not allow to own property they enter into 99 years leases and so on.

Well idk anything about that, but asian americans went through less then 5 years of discrimination compared to centuries for women and hundreds for african americans. I suppose we all should put that into perspective. The Irish were hated for a generation, the Italians, the Jews. When do we move on and Hstop blaming our gender, our race, our color....and just prove we are better then what we think people think of us?

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/railroads.html

This massive work could never have been completed without Chinese and Irish laborers, who comprised the bulk of the workforce. Chinese laborers were brought in by the Central Pacific Railroad in large numbers. Indeed, by the height of the construction effort in 1868, over 12,000 Chinese immigrants were employed, comprising about 80 percent of the Central Pacific's workforce.


The work ethic of the Chinese impressed James Strobridge, the foreman of construction, as did their willingness to do the dangerous work of blasting areas for track in the treacherous Sierra Nevada, an effort that cost some Chinese laborers their lives. Chinese workers even helped lay a record ten miles of track in just twelve hours, shortly before the railroad was completed. The Chinese dedication to the Central Pacific was even more impressive in light of the racial discrimination they experienced. California law prevented them from obtaining full citizenship, but still mandated that they pay taxes to the state of California. In addition, the Chinese were paid only $27 a month (later rising to $30 a month), significantly less than the $35 a month that Irish laborers on the Central Pacific earned for doing the same work.

http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-america/transcontinental-railroad

Central Pacific reports 137 deaths during four years of construction. But in 1870, a journalist sees a train loaded with the bones of an estimated 1,200 Chinese bodies. Railway completion means 25,000 Chinese and Irish are now unemployed. Hatred of the Chinese results in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act ending their immigration. (It would be 1898 before Wong Kim Ark challenged this institutional racism, effectively creating the first Asian-Americans).

"If America was now a continental nation...it was the Chinese who had made it so...And instead of thanks what they got was the smell of their Chinatowns burning to the ground" Simon Schama

In California, the Chinese form 10% of the population. Violence is endemic.

“Stoned to death in the streets of San Francisco by a mob of half-grown boys and Christian school children.” 1869 obituary for a Chinese man, Wan Lee

http://archive.vancouver.wsu.edu/crbeha/ja/ja.htm


Despite the Issei’s hard work in the early twentieth century, envy and racial discrimination led to increasing anti-Japanese attitudes on the West Coast, much as the sentiment had developed against perceived Chinese competition. Residents of Mountain Home, Nampa, and Caldwell, Idaho drove out Japanese workers, and white mobs near Coeur d’Alene and in Portland threatened Japanese railroad workers. Tensions led to the so-called “Gentleman’s Agreement” between the U.S. and Japan that effectively limited after 1908 the numbers of laborers that could emigrate from Japan. Instead, the two governments allowed wives and brides to join earlier male immigrants in the United States, changing the character of the immigrant community.



Many Issei women were disappointed with their new homes, far from families and friends, which often required enduring discrimination and hard work to survive. Teiko Tomita’s family arranged a marriage with Masakazu Tomita, a farmer near Wapato. In 1921 she arrived with her new husband in Washington and found that their primitive cabin had neither electricity nor water, to which she had been accustomed in Japan. Henry Fujii had saved enough money to return to Japan to marry and brought his new wife to Idaho. Fumiko Mayeda Fujii encountered a crude cabin on the Emmett, Idaho farm that her new husband leased, which she had to share with his partner and family. She had to learn a range of new skills, including baking bread, sewing, and speaking English. Linda Tamura found in oral history interviews with Hood River Issei that immigrant women, who hoped for adventure and prosperity, were often disappointed with American food, their dirty and uncomfortable surroundings, and their much older husbands. They were overwhelmed with loneliness as well as strenuous physical labor.
Although they may have initially come to the United States to save money and return to Japan, the birth of their children persuaded many Issei to remain in their adopted country and strengthen their communities. By the 1920s, the numbers of Japanese American families had grown significantly, and a high percentage had moved from migratory work to own businesses or farms.

Resisting Discrimination

Post-World War I nativist activists, including the Hood River Anti-Alien Association, pressured states to pass laws prohibiting Japanese immigrants from leasing or owning land. At the federal level, the National Origins Act of 1924 limited European immigration and essentially excluded any further Japanese immigration.

The Columbia River Basin Issei fought discriminatory actions and legislation through public appeals and the courts, insisting on their status as hard-working, loyal Americans. Although Japanese immigrants leased less than 8 percent of Yakima Indian Reservation acreage, many whites in Yakima claimed that Issei were “crowding out” other farmers. Through the 1920s, Japanese Americans in the Yakima Valley defended their right to reside there as they disputed their characterization as “menace” in the Yakima Herald, reminding the community of their important economic role in clearing farmland. They also purchased World War I bonds and embraced local Americanization and English-language efforts. Hood River Japanese refuted charges hurled at them by the Anti-Alien Association and American Legion and demonstrated their commitment to the valley by improving the appearance of their homes and promising to limit further immigration to the area. The Japanese Farmers’ Association contributed over a thousand dollars to the Oregon Japanese Association’s efforts to halt the anti-Japanese legislation. In 1925, after a mob of seventy-five in Toledo, Oregon forcibly evicted thirty-five Japanese working at Pacific Spruce Corporation, five of the workers sued some of their assailants. A 1926 Oregon jury awarded damages to the Japanese.

The Issei also sought to retain their rightful place in communities by circumventing discriminatory state laws that banned their owning or leasing land. Some immigrant residents sub-leased land from American citizens and others registered lands in the names of their Nisei children, who were American citizens because of birth. Nonetheless, the land laws and immigration restrictions effectively halted the growth of Japanese American farming in the Northwest. Other discriminatory legislation prompted a 30 percent decline in Oregon’s Japanese population by 1928.


Idaho’s Issei successfully fought anti-Japanese legislation for a number of years through the lobbying efforts of the 150-member Japanese Association of Western Idaho, the sugar industry, and churches. Japanese Americans considered their efforts somewhat successful; while restrictive legislation finally passed in 1923 prohibiting land ownership, it allowed renewable leases, making Idaho the only state in the West where Issei could lease land.

Japanese American Associations and Culture

I love giving out the same damn information as you did and getting one vote down while you got two votes up.

I love giving out the same damn information as you did and getting one vote down while you got two votes up.

Lord there are a lot of assholes on this system.

I any case the railroads work after the civil war was deadly.

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http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/railroads.html

This massive work could never have been completed without Chinese and Irish laborers, who comprised the bulk of the workforce. Chinese laborers were brought in by the Central Pacific Railroad in large numbers. Indeed, by the height of the construction effort in 1868, over 12,000 Chinese immigrants were employed, comprising about 80 percent of the Central Pacific's workforce.


The work ethic of the Chinese impressed James Strobridge, the foreman of construction, as did their willingness to do the dangerous work of blasting areas for track in the treacherous Sierra Nevada, an effort that cost some Chinese laborers their lives. Chinese workers even helped lay a record ten miles of track in just twelve hours, shortly before the railroad was completed. The Chinese dedication to the Central Pacific was even more impressive in light of the racial discrimination they experienced. California law prevented them from obtaining full citizenship, but still mandated that they pay taxes to the state of California. In addition, the Chinese were paid only $27 a month (later rising to $30 a month), significantly less than the $35 a month that Irish laborers on the Central Pacific earned for doing the same work.


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http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-america/transcontinental-railroad

Central Pacific reports 137 deaths during four years of construction. But in 1870, a journalist sees a train loaded with the bones of an estimated 1,200 Chinese bodies. Railway completion means 25,000 Chinese and Irish are now unemployed. Hatred of the Chinese results in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act ending their immigration. (It would be 1898 before Wong Kim Ark challenged this institutional racism, effectively creating the first Asian-Americans).

"If America was now a continental nation...it was the Chinese who had made it so...And instead of thanks what they got was the smell of their Chinatowns burning to the ground" Simon Schama

In California, the Chinese form 10% of the population. Violence is endemic.

“Stoned to death in the streets of San Francisco by a mob of half-grown boys and Christian school children.” 1869 obituary for a Chinese man, Wan Lee

In fact come to think of it the BLM people who went into a college library not to study but to disrupt the studying of others seems to have a good idea of how to remain poor in the US.

My bet that there was not one hard science or engineering students among them and in fact my bet would be that you would not find too many such students in any college BLM club/movement.

..and I'm sure your reasoning for that would be that blacks are not as capable of higher cognitive function as good white people like you, huh?

Hang on, who is going to be vetted? People on student visas? Work visas, permanent visas? The men who flew planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center Towers were here on student visas I think most of them) the visas expired and they just stayed. People on student visas have also just overstayed and just never go home. But you think, Trump will not hassle tourists? How many people will want to visit the US if they have to go thru a vetting before they can get a visa. I don't think you've thought this thru, and I don't think you've paid attention to his puffing at his rally orgies where all the guys in tee shirts and john deere caps chant USA USA USA